Riddles Quotes

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At no period of [Michael Faraday's] unmatched career was he interested in utility. He was absorbed in disentangling the riddles of the universe, at first… — Abraham Flexner
Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
It may be said that myths give to the transcendent reality an immanent, this-worldly objectivity. Myths speak about gods and demons as powers on which… — Rudolf Bultmann
On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? — Victor Francis Hess
True affection is a body of enigmas, mysteries and riddles, wherein two so become one that they both become two. — Thomas Browne
The way sadness works is one of the strange riddles of the world. If you are stricken with a great sadness, you may feel as… — Daniel Handler
The scientist should treasure the riddles he can't solve, not explain them away at the outset. — Roberto Unger
There are more riddles in a stone than in a philosopher's head — Damon Knight
Physically the Celts are terrifying in appearance, with deep sounding and very harsh voices. In conversation they use few words and speak in riddles, for… — Diodorus Siculus
It is, I think, particularly in periods of acknowledged crisis that scientists have turned to philosophical analysis as a device for unlocking the riddles of… — Thomas Kuhn
Some cities, like wrapped boxes under Christmas trees, conceal unexpected gifts, secret delights. Some cities will always remain wrapped boxes, containers of riddles never to… — Truman Capote
It's about time you admitted that you are a miraculous work of art. You came into this world as a radiant bundle of exuberant riddles.… — Rob Brezsny
No; but you came, and found the riddles waiting for you! Indeed you are yourself the only riddle. What you call riddles are truths, and… — George MacDonald
I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found… — Mark Twain
Human nature is full of riddles and contradictions; its very complexity engenders art-and by art I mean the search for something more than simple linear… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them. — Alexander Pope
I am a man of few words, but many riddles. — Frank Gorshin
You speak to me in riddles, you speak to me in rhymes, my body aches to breathe your breath, your word keeps me alive. — Sarah McLachlan
We cut these numerous windings in our destinies daily with our own hands, while we imagine that we are pursuing a track on the royal… — H. P. Blavatsky
To become rich is easy. Much harder is to solve the riddles of of the heart. — Publilius Syrus

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